Scott James Remnant wrote: > On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 08:13 +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote: > > >> TBH, I just bursted into a laugh attack....for easyiness: 500 Gigabytes >> as written on a Harddrive label are not the same as 500 Gigabytes >> transfered over the Network (when you know HD vendor definition: kilo == >> 1000 and Network vendor definition normally kilo == 1024) >> >> > The latter isn't true either. > > Network speeds are generally in thousands of bits per second and > multiples thereof. > I don't know about you but I have never seen any network speed measured at anything other than the 1024 bits/bytes = 1 kilo and so on. > > The primary users of binary multiples is the RAM industry, since it's a > fundamental multiple of how RAM works. > > I have only noticed disk manufacturers put a footnote out saying that their KB/GB/whatever is defined as 1000 and not 1024. Everybody else uses the standard unit of every 1024 for kilo/mega/giga/whatever.
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